10/09/2026
A personal note to my community...
Over the course of my career (more than four decades of practice and many thousands of patients) I've dedicated my life to understanding chronic illness. What causes it. Why people stay sick. And how they can get better.
My first two books, Why Can't I Get Better? and How Can I Get Better?, laid the foundation. They introduced the MSIDS model and helped thousands of patients and practitioners rethink their approach to persistent, complex illness. But medicine doesn't stand still.
In the years since those books were published, the landscape of chronic disease has changed dramatically. And the same 16 factors on the MSIDS map that I identified in tick-borne disease have now been shown to be associated with virtually every major chronic condition in medicine.
ADHD. Alzheimer's. Autoimmune disease. Allergies and Asthma. Cancer. Cardiovascular disease. Chronic fatigue. Digestive disorders. Hormonal dysregulation. Mood disorders. Pain syndromes. Long Covid. The list goes on.
After a year-long deep dive into approximately 2,000 scientific references, I realized something that changed the direction of my work: these conditions may not be as separate as we think. The same underlying factors, like inflammation, immune dysfunction, infections, toxins, and metabolic disruption, appear across nearly all of them. That realization became my third and upcoming book:
Ending Chronic Illness: A Revolutionary New Program to Reverse Inflammation and Heal Persistent Disease
Inside, you'll find:
The expanded 16-point MSIDS Action Plan and how to use it
How to identify which factors are driving your illness, or keeping you from getting better
A systems-based approach to treatment that goes beyond any single diagnosis
Chapter-by-chapter guidance for specific chronic conditions, from A (ADD/ADHD, Allergies, Alzheimer's) to V (Viruses, including Long Covid)
I've spent my career listening to patients who were told nothing more could be done. I wrote this book because I believe that's rarely true. There are answers. They just require a different lens.
If you or someone you care about has struggled to find those answers, I hope this book offers a path forward.
Pre-order today: https://cangetbetter.com
It is my greatest hope that this work will benefit anyone who reads it. Thank you for being part of this community. Your trust, your questions, and your resilience continue to inspire this work
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